Dana Loesch first came to my attention via the Dump Dede blog but now writes for Big Journalism as while being the host of the Dana Show on 87.1 FM St. Louis
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Archive for February 18, 2011
DaTechGuy’s Field guide to bloggers : Dana Loesch
Posted: February 18, 2011 by datechguy in blogs, special eventsTags: big journalism, blogs, conservative radio, cpac, cpac 2011, dana loesch, datechguy's field guide to (cpac) bloggers, the dana show
If you want to know what anti-life and government healthcare leads to
Posted: February 18, 2011 by datechguy in opinion/news, the courtsTags: canada, obamacare, prolife
it’s this:
A Windsor, Ont. couple’s fight to bring their gravely ill baby home to die ended in bitter tears Thursday when a Superior Court judge dismissed their appeal to stop doctors from removing the infant’s breathing tube at the hospital.
The father and relatives of one-year-old Joseph Maraachli wept outside a London courthouse after an emotional Justice Helen Rady upheld the earlier decision of an independent provincial tribunal forcing the baby’s parents to comply with doctors’ orders.
With all of their legal avenues exhausted, the family will have to say goodbye to Joseph Monday morning — on Family Day — when his breathing tube will be removed.
Welcome to the future, it is here.
Wisconsin, NOW I get it
Posted: February 18, 2011 by datechguy in opinion/news, politicsTags: budget cuts, reality, unions, wisconsin
Within Stacy McCain’s post this on Wisconsin was a link to Stephen Hays that explained an awful lot:
What’s more, Wisconsin teachers pay as much as $1100 each year in compulsory union dues. If the legislation passes, they will no longer be required to pay those dues – returning that money to their own pockets.
The power of labor leaders and the democrats pols they support are based upon compulsorily dues. My wife had to pay them when the nurses were made part of the teachers union. (It didn’t protect her job). It pays for a lot of fun parties and a lot of dem votes but does very little for actual union members who aren’t connected.
This is why the fight is so bitter. Once the compulsion is removed from union dues then the game is up and these guys know it.
Moreover as Stacy points out in his Spectator column:
Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard points out that the average teacher in Wisconsin receives $77,857 in total compensation, when the value of their generous benefit package is added to their salaries. Given that the median household income in Wisconsin is just above $50,000 (and the typical household has more than one wage-earner), this means that the striking teachers are earning substantially more than the people whose taxes pay their salaries.
This is fight that even if they win is going to coin republican votes nationwide. I think the unions actually know this but knowing they can’t survive without forced dues have decided to die on this hill…
…and they will.
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